MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

Before Bullet III AKA Frank Langley, died in 1979, in one of his more lucid days, he had a new Will & Testament drawn up along with another 'special will' done up for his first son to explain that he was supposed to have inherited being an American "Title-Bearer" by the code-name of "Bullet", just as the last three generations of Langleys were. In that second Will, Frank denoted that the "Title-Bearer" Program was no longer active nor recognized, thanks to President Ford. Frank, however, felt that his first born son, who was supposed to inherit the title, should know about what he was 'supposed' to inherit. No where in that 2nd will did it identify any financial or property rights for his son. Frank attached all documentation he was given in regards to his and the previous Langleys who'd been Title-Bearers, if anything, to one day prove to the world the 'value' of the Langley name. He hired a law firm to ensure than his son, Deacon Langley, was to be given the 2nd Will on Deacon's 18th birthday.

 

Frank's 1st Will was given to his wife, Sharon Langley, who threw it away in the trash minutes after she read it once she discovered she nor any of her children would receive any money, property or valuables legally from his death. 

 

Bullet III AKA Frank Langley, died of a reported heroine overdose on 29 September 1979 and was buried in a pauper's graveyard. His wife Sharon Langley, took off with Frank's only son and two other children she'd bore that belonged to other men (not Frank). His 1st Will & Testament was never found or read; his 2nd Will, however, wasn't read until many years later.

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Frank's wife, Sharon Langley, was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)  a year after she'd up and left Frank's dead body at the morgue. Sharon remarried weeks after Frank's death to a Solano (Crime) Family Lieutenant, Antonio Caputo, from whom she got pregnant by and bore that man a son named Salvador Caputo (Salvador was conceived and born while Frank Langley was still alive, with Sharon passing Salvador off as Frank's son).  Rather than rot in jail, Sharon 'Caputo' was offered a chance to 'come clean' and tell the Feds all about the Solano Crime Family and her current husband.

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She told them EVERYTHING.

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She worked a deal receiving no jail time, and was placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program, where she and her two sons were moved to Stillwater, Minnesota. There, they lived under a new name, Smith, and were moved into the Stonebridge Apartments. Sharon was given a job as a nearby Marathon Gas Convenience Store as a clerk while her children were registered to go to school at the Stonebridge Elementary School.

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Sharon eventually flipped out over her new 'boring' lifestyle and wound up pregnant from a tryst with one of her neighbors, a punk rocker, Clarence "Clash" Carson. Nine months later, Sharon gave birth to her only daughter, , Dee Dee Carson. On that same day, Dee Dee's father, Clash Carson,  died and hour earlier overdosing on heroine at a concert. Sharon 'Carson' reportedly died while giving birth to Dee Dee (and yes, Sharon was high on heroine during the pregnancy as well as during the delivery, seeing as she attended the same concert as Clash).

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The two boys were found by the police, both of whom were left home alone...and now without their parents.

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The children were divided up and placed in foster homes. Deacon, aged 6 by this time, was taken in by a family in St. Paul.  Salvador Caputo was also placed in foster care, as was Dee Dee, the latter two of which have their own tales...but not as part of Deacon's current tale.

 

Deacon's foster family, the Browns, turned out to be a nightmare of a family.  The Browns had a total of 7 foster children living in the old home. Each child, including Deacon, was molested and mentally abused until each was about 16 or 17, at which point the child either 'mysteriously disappeared' or they ran away.

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Deacon ran away at age 13 after being molested and abused for those 10 years.

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Prior to running away, Deacon, in his teenage years, got in with the wrong crowd fast and became a juvenile delinquent. Rather than go to 'Juvie Jail', his foster parents would plead for his return home to the judge, wherein Deacon would get beaten, abused and locked in a closet for days at a time with no food, only to be let out after he submitted to another round of sexual abuse.  As such, Deacon learned how to steal things, hotwire cars, swipe wallets and do petty larcenies. For his 16th birthday, he tried stealing a Porsche sports car and go joyriding, only to crash the car and leave his left face scarred for life. Due to his injuries, his father no longer wanted to abuse him any further and was about to kill Deacon in his sleep the night that Deacon decided to run away.

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Using the money he'd stolen, Deacon took a bus to New York City where he decided to live off the street.  For the next couple of years, he did okay by himself, learning how to perform new cons, stealing, living in people's homes while they were away on vacation, etc., and as such, was able to avoid the law...until one day.

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While trying to steal a man's wallet, Deacon was caught in a sting operation by the New York Police Department (NYPD). He was arrested and jailed as an adult because Deacon wouldn't tell the cops his name or age. After the NYPD ran his fingerprints, they discovered a 'federal' warrant out for the now 18-year old 'Deacon Langley' AKA 'Deacon Caputo' AKA 'Deacon Smith' AKA 'Deacon Carson' AKA 'Deacon Brown'.

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An FBI agent arrived with two lawyers; one assigned for the current charges he was under, another from a law firm that had been searching for him to provide him with a reading of his father's (Frank Langley's) "2nd Will & Testament".

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The FBI's lawyer was VERY persuasive in getting the charge's dropped against Deacon for the wallet robbery. The other lawyer with the Will, however, had an even greater impact as a result of the Will's reading.

 

Deacon was read his father's (2nd) Will, which mentioned the information about his being the inheritor of the Presidential 'title-bearer' status; a status that long longer had any merit, power or influence. However, the lawyer, who'd done his due diligence, did however look up the Presidential Executive Order that was signed by President Eisenhower (see Bullet III for details), and as such the deed to the original  long-abandoned Langley Munition Company building in Buffalo, New York was now formally his...so long as he paid the annual property taxes starting the next year, otherwise the property would go into probate and sold at auction, thus preventing Deacon from ever getting the only good thing he'd ever been given in his life.

 

Deacon intended NOT to let this opportunity go.

 

Deacon, free from his theft charges, used the last of his money to travel to the abandoned Langley Munitions Company property.  Although old, dilapidated and shut down for many years, it was now his new home.

 

Deacon kept warm by night using an old metal barrel with wood and gasoline sucked out from an old generator on the property. Deacon spent the next few days trying to figure out how he could ever make the old dilapidated company viable again, and kept coming tot he conclusion that he'd have to figure out how to sell the property 'under the table' to some black market real estate scam in order to get any money from the property. While he was trying to formulate a plan to do this, he started ripping up old floorboards to use as fuel in the barrel to keep him warm at night. While ripping up a floorboard in what was once his great-grandfather's old office, Deacon found something; something that would change his whole future.

 

Deacon found an old safe in the office floor that contained hundreds of designs for unique ammunition and weapons; all relevant and all revolutionary even in today's (black) market.  These were plans created by his great-grandfather, John Langley, from back in the 1940s during World War II. 

 

Deacon sold several of his great-grandfather's designs to some VERY shady cartels and within a couple of months,the Langley Munitions Company was back in business.  Deacon also found a list of employees that had worked there back in the day.  Not knowing a single thing about running a company, nonetheless a munitions company, Deacon rehired some old employees (even some that had long since retired) that used to work there.  This time, however, unknown to the rehired employees, the Langley Munitions Company was instead going to make weapons and munitions not for the government, state or federal markets, but instead for dozens of villainous cartels, criminal organizations and super-villain groups. One such group that Deacon was enamored in selling to was the notorious assassin organization known as "Death Legion".

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In the late 1980s, Deacon sold millions of rounds to every single rebel militia in the world.  Using renown arms dealers such as Sarkis Soghanalian and  Victor Bout, Deacon was able to move his product to whoever needed it to kill others.  His most specialized weapons and munitions however were devised for Death Legion and the CANIS black market.

 

In a couple years time, Deacon made over $500 million dollars in profit.  Every attempt to stop him or catch him in the act of building illegal weapons failed simply due to Deacon's personal spy network he'd created.

 

In the 1990s, Deacon started following in his father's unfortunate footsteps and got involved in hard drugs, heroine, cocaine and LSD. Deacon started getting paranoid and violent, causing him to kill several employees and 'clients' that either pissed him off or people he believed were 'against' him. In this dark demeanor, he started following the Goth-like movement.  He'd listen to the dark musical beat and depressing tunes for days at a time, cutting himself, and rarely leaving his darkened office or adjoining bedroom.  He also started bedding women on a whim, sometimes up to three a night.  These were dark yet profitable times for him, but amidst all of this, he was a true 'manufacturer of death' in his own right.

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In 1990, one of his 'Gothic girls' told him she was pregnant with with his child. Without hesitation, he shot her with his newest weapon, a Tri-Laser Energy Cannon (Tri-LEC). The girl, Amanda Sykes, was blasted out a third story factory window and fell to her supposed death.  The truth was that Amanda fell into huge packages of insulation that was being tossed into the incinerator.  Amanda painfully rolled out of the mounds of insulation and escaped Deacon and his evil facility.  When Deacon's men went to find Amanda's body, they'd assumed she'd fallen into the incinerator and that she was truly dead.  Amanda Sykes instead made her way back to her parents house in Independence, Missouri, where her son, Garrett was born in October of that same year.

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Deacon, in the meantime, was starting to lose workers; workers who were frightened to work at the Langley plant because of its shady dealings,or simply dying off because they were too old.  Production started slowing and federal investigations were coming in more often.  As his arms dealers started 'retiring' or getting caught and tried in the World Court, Deacon's customer base for his munitions began dwindling. What was worse, super-powered heroes were popping up everywhere, righting wrongs and getting their noses into Deacon's business. As a newly appointed Deputy Leader in Death Legion, Deacon actually used his family's 'Title-Bearer' code-name as his new Death Legion code-name: BULLET.  Deacons planned to eventually lead Death Legion as become its new leader with the traditionally significant title as "Death's Bullet".

 

By the later 1990s, Deacon had silently eliminated three super-powered heroes and several G.U.A.R.D. spies that were trying to catch him doing his illegal activities.  Over the next few years, Deacon grew more and more paranoid and started building high-powered missile launchers, fantastic laser cannons and amazing electronic scramblers in and around his plant, preparing to fend off what he kept repeating over and over was an 'invasion of supers any day now'.

 

Ironically, in the year 2000, the world was invaded by the Soltan Star Empire. Initially, many key cities and locations were taken over throughout the world, but Buffalo, New York was somehow deemed unimportant to the Soltans.  As such, the Soltans never landed or occupied Buffalo.  Deacon, however, nearly drove himself insane expecting the Soltans to land on his plant's roof at any second. Within months, the world's superheroes, military powers and G.U.A.R.D. drove the aliens off to the dark side of Mars, leaving the world to rebuild and restock its weapons. Deacon and his plant went into full production, bringing in illegal workers to work shifts around the clock. 

 

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After the Liberation of Earth from the Soltan invaders by September 2000, Deacon's debauchery was once again in full swing. With many people without jobs, he created his own harem of women, getting lost in sex, drugs and his Goth-like style, while employing hundreds of workers at near slave-wages at the munitions company.  From 2001 to 2010, Deacon sired dozens of children without committing to any of the women he got pregnant; he'd instead toss the mothers a few thousand dollars, threaten to shoot them and kicked them out of his life. It was discovered later that Deacon had a total of 12 bastard boys and girls, with one such child, his first-born son, Garrett (see Bullet V), that Deacon should have been the most worried about.

 

Between 2008 and 2010, In his paranoid, drug-addled state, Deacon employed Death Legion assassins to kill each of his bastard children, since Deacon feared that one day, they'd demand his legacy, either through inheritance or by simply killing him for his money...at least, that's what Deacon's warped mind believed.  So as to 'get out in front of that', as Deacon told everyone around him, he put markers out on each of his kids. By 2010, 11 of his 12 bastard children were reportedly assassinated, leaving the first son as the last to die.

 

Before we discuss the 'Deacon/Garrett Showdown', as it was later dubbed in a made-for-TV movie, Deacon made some powerful yet dangerous moves in Death Legion.  By 2010, Deacon had continued to build more and more defenses in and around his Langley Munitions Company. The cost of building these defenses was staggering, reaching upward of one billion Dollars cut into the company's profits and upsetting Death Legion's secret sect of investors.  To add to this, the quality of the plant's weapons were also waning, with nearly 1 in 5 weapons failing or seizing, all due to the poor skills of the factory's workforce. The day before Deacon was to be 'excommunicated' by the leader of Death Legion (and its secret sect of investors), Deacon himself killed Death Legion's leader and all of the secret investors, totaling 45 assassinations in all.  As a result of his manipulations, paranoia and ruthlessness, he became the new leader of Death Legion, taking on the self-given title as "Death's Bullet".

 

Within a week of 'gaining' leadership in Death Legion, Deacon used all of Death Legion's resources to complete what he deemed as a 'coup de grace' to his rise in power - the face-to-face killing of his last bastard son, Garrett. Tauntingly, Deacon sent a then 20-year old Garrett a message saying to meet his 'true father' for the first...and last...time that night. There, according to the message, both father and son would take care of the Langley legacy once and for all.  Garrett, agreed to the meeting, thus resulting in what became the Deacon/Garret Showdown (see Bullet V for all the details of that fight!).

 

In the end, Death Legion was decimated, the Langley Munitions Company was taken by the Federal Government as recompense (including all the incredible weapons Deacon had built into the property), and Garrett became a bit of a celebrity.  Deacon is now serving 25 life sentences, with no possibility of parole, in a federal prison at a secret location.  He has been placed in the equivalent of meta-human isolation due to the continued death threats from the families he'd destroyed as well as from previous angry members of Death Legion. Deacon was severely injured in the showdown, however, it is said that he's since recovered quite unexpectedly and seems to be in great health...for a prisoner, that is...

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